Dieter Meindl

These essays (in English except for four items in German and
French) provide an intercultural perspective. They deal with such
diverse aspects of North American (including Quebecois) literature
as "Kanadas Verhaltnis zu den USA im Spiegel seiner Literatur,"
"Canada and American Slavery", the Acadian theme in "Longfellow et
Antonine Maillet" and "The Western Love Code: Faulkner, Hebert,
Hemingway, and Ondaatje." The continental context also pervades
treatments of novels (featuring Indian wars, sentimentalism, the
West, and modern picaros), story cycles (e.g., Atwood's), and the
long poem (Kroetsch).